Magick Without Tears

28 Need to Define "God" and "Self" Cara Soror, Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. Artless remark! I Oh you! Well, I suppose it's a gift-to stir Hell to its most abysmal horror with one small remark slipped in at the end. Scorpion! "Higher self" - "God within us." Dear Lady, you could never have picked five words from Iroquois, or Banti, or Basuto or the Jargon of Master Francois Villon, or Pictish, which severally and together convey less to my mind. No, no, not Less : I meant More, so much more that it amounts to nothing at all. Spencer Montmorency Bourbon Hohenstaufen sounds very exclusive and aristocratic, and even posh or Ritzy; but if you bestow these names upon every male child, the effect tends to diminish. Gimme the old spade, I've got to go digging again. 1. 'Higher.' Here we fall straight into the arms of Freud . Why 'higher'? Because in a scrap it is easier to strangle him if you are on top. When very young children watch their parents in actu coitus, a circumstance exceedingly usual almost anywhere outside England, and even here where houseroom is restricted, the infant supposes that his mother, upon whom he depends entirely for nourishment, is being attacked by the intrusive stranger whom they want him to address as "Dad." From this seed springs an "over-under 1. Refers to a pious phrase at the end of her letter. 202